My experience LIVING in Albania (NOT traveling) part 2
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- Опубліковано 16 сер 2023
- My Albanian song: • Alandy x Kevan Hudson x OG Merks - Ku... (gotta promote it)
For legal questions about moving here:
Contact info: contact@koniniconsulting.com
Website: koniniconsulting.com/english/
Tiktok @whereskevan and my personal UA-cam channel that I actually use.
If you want a PDF copy of that Albanian book send an email to that lawyer and I’m sure he’ll send you a copy.
I think that’s all I can say to be honest.
Here are the homophobic IG posts & comments:
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Also I guess these links aren’t clickable and I have to verify my account for y’all to click them. But I don’t wanna verify it so you guys can copy and paste or figure out how to view them.
Here’s the poem: Pashko Vasa - Moj Shqipni
I hope this video was more helpful than the last. Again do not subscribe to this UA-cam channel. I don’t use it. I accidentally posted on here and people saw it. So I’m posting on here again because this will be the place where you’re most likely to see it. Subscribe to my other channel if you find the content interesting. If not that’s okay.
I still haven’t restarted my IG since last year. I’ve been happier this way. But I might get it back. And if you want to reach me or ask any questions you can definitely message Tahir (the immigration lawyer who got me my residency) with any questions and he can probably answer them WAY better than I can.
Also I don’t want to be dismissive of anyones experiences. So if you’re offended I’m sorry. But I’m not sorry enough to not say the same thing because I meant everything I said in this video.
I hope everyone comes to Albania. It’s not a paradise but for foreigners it’s a huge upgrade.
Also if anyone is interested in learning Albanian with online lessons LMK because I think I have a teacher that can help you. Maybe. Gotta check with him.
This type of honest, barely filtered content is fire. Love it, thank you.
Glad you liked it
As a foreign language enthusiast, I love that you share in this video that people should study the grammar of their OWN language before taking on another language. ❤
This is without a doubt the most helpful video I’ve watched as someone from the US about to move to Albania.
I'm happy to hear this!
@@MrKevanHudson both of your videos are super helpful. My son and I are moving to Albania in July! Very excited! 🇦🇱❤️
Congrats! I hope you have a lovely stay@@ExpatSingleMom
I travelled all over southern europe and albania is the best country by far for me i am from canada
Really, how so !.
Tell us why
I love Albania. I am from Canada and the people are so wonderful. This is the second year in a row I've gone with my husband
Vacationing in Albania is a completely different experience than living there.
You are very observant to your surroundings and good in teaching it out to others. In an intelligent and respectful way. Kalofsh mire
FLM
Thank you so much for this video and also the previous one. I appreciate the simplicity. Hearing other people's stories and personal experiences is always valuable.
Thank you for being real, this exactly what i was looking for 👍
Your voice is very soothing, this vid helps with my insomnia very much so thank you 🙏
That's interesting. You're welcome
I appreciate your candor and consideration of the Albanian people and the friends you might make without regard to how long you might stay or how their culture might treat them.
Hi, Kevan! Thanks so much for another awesome video. Your content is so incredibly helpful for people who are considering spending some time in Albania. 🙏🏼
For sure 🙏
I very much enjoyed listening to both of your videos. Great to have a perspective (from your own lived experiences) from someone who has lived in Albania for 5 years versus someone who has lived there or visited for only 30 days. Just loved how you’re transparent in both videos about living in Albania. I learned a lot! I would consider living there.
@@Nomadicseeker303 thank you very much. I’ve actually just hit 7 years 🎉
Bro I really respect what you do I am from Albania and I am really happy when I see people from other countries to visit or live in Albania, this is really helping Albania as a country to change.
Thank you! But I don't really do anything lol At most I've done some volunteer work.
Am soon visiting Albania hopefully to know more
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We’re getting ready to move to Tirana in November. Can’t wait🎉
Hope you enjoy it!
Good luck with that. Even if the world whas over ....
I absolutely love you ❤❤❤❤.
Thanks for absolutely keeping it one hunnid!
I just posted the homophobic page in the comment section below because I couldn't post it in the description
Great videos! I appreciate you and the information you shared. Thanks!
You're very welcome
Very nice content man keep it up
Thank you for respecting the women and explaining the reality.
No problem
This is so helpful!
@@ThatGirl-cs1gt happy to hear that!
New subscriber here! Second video I’m watching and I love your content
thank you very much!
Thanks for that, Kevan. Very interesting. 😁
Thanks! Excellent video. 😊
Thank you so much, i am doing research about Albania to move to and your videos are the most helpful. Can you link us to groups where we can find rent or people to meet? i would appreciate a lot
Same groups as the last comment :) Those are for apartments but also useful for meeting new people.
Great video, love the fact that you are very informed about Albanian history and the injustice of Europe trying to steal our lands and trying to erase our language and history
@@TheTTMChannel1 My partner is Albanian and has spent a lot of time teaching me the history. I gotta give the credit to him.
Thank you!
You very welcome 🙏
Im planning to visit Albania next summer june, black fella from Norway :D
I hope you enjoy it
Dope video
thanks
For anyone interested in what he has to say about racism. He starts here 22:13
Hi Kevan, I enjoyed your video, found it very informative, and am glad to hear you are making progress in Albanian, which I think is a wonderful language.
One minor quibble: don't buy into the Albanian nationalist narrative/conspiracy theories (they have been here for 8000 years, there is a plan to promote corruption in the country to force them to move out, etc.).
The reality is much more complex. Groups of humans moved to Europe from Africa more than 100,000 years ago and since then there has been a great deal of flux in terms of languages, cultures, populations and so on. Identities have formed, changed, been supplanted and evolved in ways that we cannot imagine. While some populations over, say, the course of the last millennium, may appear to have been relatively stable, they have still undergone tumultuous changes due to invasions, pandemics, environmental changes, and other developments. 8000 years is really a very very long time in historical terms and no-one today knows who was who so long ago.
Think about your own ancestors. They were brought to America a few centuries ago - not really such a long time in relative terms - and yet it is very hard to know much about them, what languages they spoke, their religions and so on, especially if we want to know the answers to those questions about them while they were still in Africa. DNA tests are misleading and the records that exist are insufficient to know their personal histories, in most cases. So what were they doing 8000 years ago? No-one has the faintest idea.
The ideologies that legitimise modern nation states often seek to reach back into history to trace a story of a 'real' 'ancient', or 'original' people, but this is always bogus to some extent. These narratives contain elements of truth, but the truth is instrumentalised in order to provide a cohesive and simplified narrative. The Albanian language, a treasure-house of influences from a huge range of other languages, provides ample proof of this - after all, about half of its vocabulary is derived from Latin.
As for corruption and people leaving the county, that has been common to all of the countries of Eastern Europe (except perhaps for Czechia and Slovenia) since the 1990s - and especially in the case of countries like Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Romania. Is someone trying to drive them out of their countries too? Of course not; there is just a generalised problem of corruption combined with a complex set of economic problems. It's not part of a conspiracy. Consider the Albanian pyramid schemes of 1996-97. Peoples' lives were ruined. No wonder many of them wanted to leave. They formed a recent diaspora who told all their cousins and other relatives to emulate their example and move to the UK or elsewhere, where they could make much more money, so there were/are both 'pull' and 'push' factors. It's a quite normal phenomenon.
Anyway, I enjoyed your video very much and wish you all the best in Albania. You seem like a thoughtful, intelligent, and charismatic person.
Thank you for the response. As for the 8k year thing it was based on the ancient pile-dwelling settlement near the village of Lin, in Pogradec, which is now the oldest in the entire continent of Europe. And there haven't been any other known groups living over in that region so whoever was there before was likely an ancestor to albanians.
I don't think the language thing is true since it's own language group. Yes there are many latin words, but those are typically borrowed words, but they also have turkish words in their language, but at it's core it's a really unique language.
As for the corruption, it's everywhere. My country is also corrupt as hell.
@@MrKevanHudson Thanks for your reply, Kevan. Albanian is an Indo-European language. It forms its own branch on the Indo-European language tree, but so do Greek and Armenian. In that sense, it is not unique. Furthermore, it is a member of the Balkan Sprachbund and shares numerous features with its neighbouring Balkan languages (these features are very obvious and Albanian is very typically Balkan). No serious linguist thinks that any Indo-European language was spoken in the Balkans 8000 years ago, which contradicts your assumption that Lin provides evidence of early Albanian settlement. After all, an Albanian is someone who speaks Albanian (an Indo-European language) which was not spoken in the Balkans 8000 years ago - but of course the people who lived there were presumably the ancestors of various peoples in the region, not only the Albanians.
The blood and soil idea (a unique people, a unique territory, a uniquely ancient language, a unique connection to ancient inhabitants) is a far-right idea. It is also, sadly, typical of the Balkans and is thus not remotely unique in the case of Albania. It is based on fallacious reasoning, a lack of historical and linguistic knowledge, numerous assumptions, and gross oversimplification. These ideas are popular in Albania because they have underwritten the development of Albanian statehood and have been used by Albanian politicians, including Enver Hoxha, to provide legitimacy. These far-right ideas are harmful because they are untrue, they promote conflct, and they are, in their essence, racist.
Hi, i am planning on studying in Albania do you recommend it?
I applied to western Balkan university for computer science and artificial intelligence
I don't think I am the person to recommend anything because I've never gone to school here. I know a lot of foreigners go to Epoka which is supposed to be good. But IDK what degree you want, where you live, and what you plan to do for work. Because the country you're in has to recognize the degree as well.
Best people best contry like Albania a lot
May I ask what you do for work while living there? If you are working, did you secure the job before moving there?
@@SDBR I just got laid off 5 days ago. I’m a copywriter. I came here teaching English online. I’ve also worked locally in tirana as a copywriter. When I came here I basically had to find a new job upon arrival to make a long story short.
@@MrKevanHudson thank you for your openness. Praying you find something soon.
@@SDBR thank you I hope so too
Hey bro
I'm looking forward to move to Albania I'm from Nigeria can you assist in acquiring a visa for me...I don't know how to go about it.....thanks
Go to their website, the visa type is usually E-visa
you can contact the person in the description
Theyre racists, why would you go there.
This is one of very few videos of the "living in Albania" type (or living in ANY foreign country, for that matter) that offers any real depth.
Ulcinj is in montenegro right next to the albanian border and it is mostly albanian people living there
Because it used to be part of albania.
Thank you for being real! Refreshing ❤ thanks for putting yourself out there, especially when you don’t have to.
Do you know if it’s acceptable to have a job as online English teacher in Albania?
I’d like to live there for a year as a homebase to travel to other areas like Bulgaria Turkey, Greece, Italy. When I was 23 I had a boyfriend from Albania who was a fisherman. I don’t know what happened to him, but his stories were highly entertaining. His dad was the number one boxer for Albania. we would go into antique stores and he would show me kitchen tools. His mother still used in the communist kitchens where she was a cook for the government. He said they could not get the Coca-Cola factory started there because everyone stole the machinery. He said when he was growing up, the government told them that they were the greatest country in the world, and they believe them because they didn’t know any better.
He wouldn’t eat broccoli because he said that it was animal fodder, and his dad grew a whole field of it to feed their cows.
Artisan bread was getting a start here in the early 90s and he thought it was funny that people paid so much for what he thought was regular every day bread.
I think it's acceptable to have an online job as an english teacher everywhere. Just be mindful that power outages can happen and interfere with your job so I'd recommend talking to people in your building to neighborhood to ask before moving to your place.
Hey bro, what job do you do in Albania?
copywriter
Please the volume on this video is to low . Can you fix that ?.
I'm sorry I can't. I'm not a UA-camr lol IDK several people have given me comments on the video like im getting paid to make this
Please how is there work payment like
For what job?
Here are the homophobic IG posts & comments:
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those are news , also that news outlet is the worst scum , and the ppl comenting there are scum (LLUMI we say in Albanian, its when the water dries out on a pool with stagnating water and that think wet sand and algae and stuff is left which smells bad and its full of diseases xD).
i also think what u say about homophobia is mostly true , but if ur gay and dont make being gay your whole personality i dont think you will have any problems.
Can we talk about cost of living ??
hmmm actually yes, that's a good idea. I think I should do this.
As a gay guy looking to leave America, I was hoping Albania was an option. 😢
@@FEEBO2025 It’s an option for some. There’s a community here too. But it’s definitely not a good option for effeminate men in general. I wouldn’t even suggest effeminate straight men to come here.
But it depends on where you live exactly in tirana and how open you are. If you’re discreet and dont mind living like that then you’ll be fine.
You didn’t say anything about work life... How easy too find what too do aside being a digital nomad
Yes you can still message them if you want to relocate.
I said all I could about work life. IDK anyones work experience, education, work goals etc so I can't make anymore comments than what I've already said
Come to Serbia
one day I will
Hello bro
What’s up
Please can you give me your WhatsApp number because I am planning to come over there soon so I want us to chat so that I can get a friends you over there
First of all, thank you so much for the video, I enjoyed it. I know this is not my business, I like to understand: what a young attractive person is doing in the most homofobic and transfobic contry of the planet ? A place with no future, where international mafias swim freely, major international religious mafias all around, big level of ignorance , a place that is in identity crisis for the last 600 years. That most likely will desapear in the next 50 years. !
Haha IDK about young and attractive. But I'm almost 30.
I think I've come to realize that every country has homophobia to some extent. And essentially what you experience is who you surroudn yourself by, and I don't surround myself with homophobic people so the only time I might experience it is from a person who doens't matter. Or the only way it would affect me is if I was looking for an apartment or wanted tog et married -- then its annoying as hell. But as an American you don't have to deal with it as much, so I benefit from this passport privilege.
As far as the future, I'm slightly hopeful. And at least the mafia here doesn't mess with random people so it wont ever effect me unless I get mixed up with the wrong crowd, but thats not an albania specific thing because even Japan has an internaitonal mafia that is just as bad.
There is some ignorance here, but most of the world is also very ignorant about albania so it goes both ways.
I wouldnt call it an identity crisis but rather an unfortunate series of events. Would you say that african americans had an identity crisis for 300 years? No. So why would you say that about here when they've just been colonized. That doesn't make sense to me.
Hopefully within the next 50 years it will be in the EU!
@@MrKevanHudson oh good for you. Do you think Albanian people has same privileges in the US as you do in there contry ?. What do you think of the 30 years illegal American invasion of Albania ?.
@@keepitreal-777 No, I have way more privilege here then they have in the US. Americans come here and they don't even try to learn the language and many of them work remotely with salaries that locals could only dream of and live very nicely and the visa process is easy for americans. And this is extremely unfair. Albanians can't even go to america for vacation without applying for a visa and even then they may get it denied. Whereas an American can stay here for a year. And I think America is a country where the most privileged are white Americans since they are the majority and have ruled the country since they stole the native american land -- so I can't even relate to the level of complete american privilege within the US because I'm black.
TBH I didnt know about the americna invasion so I dont have an opinion
@@MrKevanHudsonBravo my child!! You are wonderful!!!!Faleminderit shume zemra ❤
5:40 it’s called Kosovo
@@veldrensavoth7119 I wasn’t talking about Kosovo. If I was I would have said that.
I have met blacks that live in Albania that get along just fine, but unlike you they speak fluently just as well as natives.
Black people* from what country?
@@MrKevanHudson I don't know but one of his grown children came to Albania when she was very young the other was born there they are in there late 20's
I know some black girls like this @@anl1456
zezak ha'
zezak
And proud
Bravo zemer! Keshtu duhet te jeshe! Je I mrekullushem! Bravo familjes qe te rriti me kete fryme ❤❤❤❤❤
@@missluiza7765 flm
Me Albanian from Macedonia never been in Albania 😂I will not come until United Albania 1444/1878 borders are there if not I will die in Germany ciao
I hope they all unite in the future too
i also dont agree with the statement on prices and tourists , im sorry bud it's a dumb take , get more educated on that .
Also the mob here dont have acess to cameras , they had instaled cameras on their hoods where they live to be safe , they dont acess the state cameras .
Also the thing about getting taxed by criminal groups is a thing of the past , it doesnt happen anymore since a lot of people that made money ilegaly make it by dealing drugs outside of Albanian and then come invest here to launder it
ok